A pretty 16-year-old Lakewood teen ran away from home in late February 1971.

Pamela Ann Williams’ body was discovered in another county weeks later.

Williams had lived with her parents and siblings at 1540 S. Carr St.

Pamela Williams

She was last seen alive by family on Feb. 27, 1971.

Williams was reported as a runaway shortly after.

Then on March 8, train engineer Ed Marsh was in a passing train when he spotted the body of the partially clothed girl.

Williams’ body was found dumped in bushes near Colorado 2 and E. 104th Avenue.

She had been shot twice in the right temple with a small-caliber gun, according to a March 9, 1971 Denver Post article.

She had been wearing a blue ski jacket and a purple dress. One of her shoes was found at the scene.

Adams County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Candi Baker has previously said homicide investigators recently sent DNA evidence from the case to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation for testing but no matches were made with any suspects.

Investigators have followed every lead they get in the case, Baker said.

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.